Improvement in ticket-clasps



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH W. LYON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL SIMONS, OF SAME PLACE; SAID SIMONS ASSIGNOR TO RAND, MONALLY & CO.

IMPROVEMENT IN TlCKET-CLASPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l95,623, dated September 25, 1877; application filed May 8, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. LYON, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ticket-Hooks, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to furnish a cheap and convenient hook on which to hang coupon railroad-tickets or similar articles.

The manner in which I construct it enables it to be made very cheaply, as, in consequence of cutting the tongue A out of the material itself, I thereby save the material out of which the tongue A is usually made, and at the same time save the labor of attaching the tongue A to the plate D G, Fig. 1.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention.

This article consists of simply the plate D G, bent in the form of a hook, with a portion of the same, A, cut from the central part of the same leaf, one end still attached to the plate D G at G.

Fig. 2 shows the metal plate as it is stamped out before the tongue A is cut from the same.

The dotted line inclosing the letter C shows the locality on the plate D G from which the tongue Ais cut, the end of the tongue A nearest to the end G of the plate D G being left uncut.

0n Fig. 1, 0 shows the opening from which the tongue A has been taken. This tongue A is concave on its under surface, as shown fully in Fig. 3 at B.

To 'use this hook, simply hang it over a wire, rod, or string, or other suitable support, and the ticket is suspended on the tongue A by passing the tongue A through a hole or puncture in the ticket.

What I claim as new, as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The plate D G, constructed with the bend E and the tongue A, the tongue A being cut from and being a part of the plate D G, and the tongue A being concave on its under surface and convex on its upper surface, in the manner shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH W. LYON. Witnesses:

F. J. SEYBoLD,

J. E. PHELPS. 

